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CHARLES ANDERSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO SAMUEL INLANDER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DISH-MAKING Mast-nae.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 696,922, dated April 8, 1902.

Application filed March 25, 1901. Serial No. 521675. (No model.)

To (0% whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dish-Making Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates more particularly to machines for making wooden dishes, such as are commonly used for butter and the like, from strips of veneer; and its objects are to produce a machine of this kind that will be extremely simple and cheap in construction and will be efficient and durable in operation.

It consists, then, in combining the necessary operative partssuch as the knives, cutter-block, forming parts, and stapler mechanism-in the manner shown in the accompanying drawings and described more particularly hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same with the stapler and operating mechanism removed from the left side of the machine. Fig. 3 is a view of the bed-plate. Fig. 4 is a plan View of a portion of the bed-plate. Fig. 5 is a side view of the swinging frame. Fig. 6 is a plan view of a portion of the same. Fig. 7 is a view of a dish such as is made by the machine. Fig. 8 is a view, partly in section, showingthe operative position of the formingdies. Figs. 9 and 10 are details of the male forming-die. Figs. 11 and 11 are details of the clenching-blocks. Fig. 12 is a detail of the end of the cam-lever J.

A A are side frame members braced at the bottom by spreaders a a and secured at the top to a bed-plate B. A driving-shaft C is carried in suitable bearings c c in the frame members.

The strip of veneer D is fed forward by a feeding mechanism consisting of an adjustable dog .or pawl c, Fig. 3, pressed into engageinent therewith by a spring e and pivoted on a sliding block 6 carried on a guide member 6 secured to the bed B by an overhanging lug 8 A pin 6 secured to said block, furnishes. a rigid connection with a link a, connected to the upper end of the 0perating-lever E, which is pivoted. on the shaft F, secured in the frame. The lower end of the lever E is slotted to form an adjustable connection with the eccentric-rod e connect ing with an eccentric E on the driving-shaft.

Lugs 19, projecting up and rearwardly from the bed-plate B, carry a shaft 13', upon which is pivoted a swinging knife-bearin g and formbearing frame G, comprising the two arms 9 g and the cross-plate g. At the forward end this frame is pivotally attached to two eccentric-rods H, connecting with the eccentrics h h on the driving-shaft C. The front and rear cutting-knives t' t" are secured to the plate g, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, and cut down upon a soft-steel plate Z), set in the bed-plate.

The female forming-die I is held in a block i having a stem i adjustably secured by a set-screw in a lug g on the cross-plate g of the swinging frame.

The male forming-dies J, which also carry the staple-clenching blocks j, are at the ends of cam-levers J, pivoted at to the same supports K that carry the staplers L. The staplers may be of any well-known form of mechanism, and their construction is not made a part of the present invention. Double bellcranks M, pivoted at mto the supports K, have arms m to operate the staplers L and roller-bearing arms m to operate the camlevers J. The main arms of the cranks are pivoted to rods N, connecting with cranks O on the ends of the shaft F. The shaft F is rocked by a crank F, attached to an eccentric-rod f from an eccentric f on the main shaft C.

A slide 79 is attached to the forward end of the bed-plate tofurnish a guide upon which the completed dish may slide down.

In operation the strip of veneer isfed forward by means of the feeding-dog and its operating mechanism to a position beneath the knives, which are then brought into operation, but do not sever the dish-blank, as the rear knives only cut out for the overlapping curves and mark the lines for bending. hen it is again fed forward, the forward knives sever the blank from the strip,and it is pressed into shape by the male dies forcing it up into the female die and stapled, when the dish is completed and being released slides down the guide-plate.

2. In a dish-making machine, the combination of the female die, the male dies on the ends of pivoted cam-levers, the staple-clenching blocks secured to said male dies, the staple-driving mechanism cooperating with said male d ice, the double bell-crank adapted to 0perate said stapling mechanism and said maledie levers, and means connecting with the driving-shaft for actuating said bell-crank.

CHARLES ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

S. INLANDER, A. INLANDER. 

